Again with 6 paintings at a time, and as long as it is taking to do all these layers and letting them completely dry, it may be better to paint by the dozen! Ha!!

I'm still trying to find better backgrounds for flowers. I don't mind the pain staking efforts to get good subjects, but to do the same on a background is more than my patience will allow!

I have 2 completed in the set of 6 - and done my old ways just to fill my need for speed! The 3 paintings of the Hellebore's backgrounds are coming along nicely. I'm still working on the hands painting to submit to Susan for a second critique. Some things are coming out much better, some not so much. Ah, the learning curve. Perhaps you can't teach an old dog new tricks! :-)

We did a white flower in Lynn Ferris's class quite some time ago, using masking to protect the whites and then randomly painting yellow, pink and blue - and sneaking in with grey to finalize the flowers. I tried it with a photo that probably wasn't a good reference for this, but it was fun anyway. Still working on backgrounds - please let me know if there are any that you like in the last couple of flower paintings, and the Hellebores to come!

I'm still playing with lake paintings - we have such awesome sunrises and sunsets, I would really like to get good at these. Sterling Edwards advised to work with yellow/pink/purple/blue so they don't bleed into each other and create grey.